Seats
Morning slot (6 am - 2 pm)
Eight fixed morning hours at a shared seat — the slot most school-side aspirants take.
from ₹600
Reading room · Prayagraj
142 numbered seats. Silence, enforced.
A study library for competitive-exam aspirants — your own seat, working fans and lights, drinking water, and a silence rule the staff actually keep. Nothing else is promised.
Serving Katra · Civil Lines · Allahpur · Tagore Town
142seats, numbered — when they are full, we say so instead of squeezing benches
Silencekept by staff on the floor, not by a poster
16 hrsopen 6 am to 10 pm, every day including Sundays
No lock-inmonthly plans, leave any month — an aspirant's money should not be trapped
What we do
Services & fees
Monthly seat fees as stated; the day pass exists so you can try the hall before committing. Electricity backup runs on all floors. Newspapers and standard reference books on the shelf are shared and stay in the hall.
Seats
Evening slot (2 pm - 10 pm)
The working-aspirant slot — study after your job, with tea available at the gate stall till nine.
from ₹600
Seats
Full-day seat
Any seat, all sixteen hours. The plan most serious mains-stage aspirants hold.
from ₹1,000
Seats
AC hall seat
The upper hall, cooled May to September — same silence, kinder summers.
from ₹1,500
Cabins & reserved
Reserved fixed seat
Your own numbered seat with a bookshelf below it — leave your books, find them untouched.
from ₹1,400
Cabins & reserved
Private cabin
Twelve enclosed single desks along the north wall, for interview-stage and thesis work.
from ₹2,200
Cabins & reserved
Locker
Steel locker for books and a tiffin — bring your own lock, we mirror no keys.
from ₹150
Day use
Day pass
A full day at any free seat — the honest way to test whether our silence is real.
from ₹40
Day use
Weekly pass
Exam-week visitors and out-of-town candidates before a centre date.
from ₹200
Extras
Discussion room hour
A closed room for group answer-writing review — so the main hall never hears it.
from ₹100
Extras
Printout & photocopy
At the front desk — current-affairs compilations and admit cards, printed while you wait.
from ₹2
Extras
Test-series Sundays
Hall seating under exam timing for your own test series — OMR sheets, a bell, and no phones.
from ₹100
Add what you need to your list and send it across — we reply with a firm quote and a slot. Nothing is charged from this page.
Who does the work
The people you will actually see
You are told who is on your file before you arrive, not after.
Ramakant Dwivedi
Owner & hall-in-charge
Sits at the front desk himself most days; the silence rule survives because he enforces it politely
Sunita Nishad
Floor supervisor
Runs the seat register, the lockers and the morning opening at six sharp
Aftab Ansari
Desk & printing
The forms, printouts and day-pass desk — and the person who finds you a seat
Proof
The hall, plainly
A reading room has one product: a quiet seat. Look at the seats.
When
Opening hours
- Every day6:00 - 22:00
- Desk (passes & plans)8:00 - 20:00
Area served: Katra · Civil Lines · Allahpur · Tagore Town
Before you ask
Questions we get
Do you provide coaching or study material?
No, and we do not pretend to. We are a hall: seat, light, fan, water, silence. Your syllabus and your books are yours. The shelf holds shared standard references and the day's newspapers, and the notice board carries exam dates we verify against the official calendars before pinning.
Is a seat guaranteed on the shared plans?
On shared plans, a seat in your slot is guaranteed — a specific seat is not; that is what the reserved plan is for. We cap shared-plan sales below hall capacity so the guarantee holds even on the fullest days. The month we cannot honour it, we stop selling — you will never stand waiting in a hall you paid for.
Why no 24-hour plan?
Because a hall open all night needs night staff, and thin staffing at 3 am is how reading rooms become unsafe, especially for women. We close at ten and open at six. An aspirant needs sleep more than a 2 am seat — that is our honest opinion, printed where you can disagree with it.
Contact
Tell us the plan you need
Which slot, from when, and whether you want reserved or shared. We reply with availability within two working days.